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Do you feel safe swimming in the sea? Leeds locals reflect on river and sea pollution
National World - LocalTV
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28/06/2024
Eighty-three percent of UK rivers are polluted and 23 beaches are too contaminated with sewage for safe use. Would you feel safe swimming in British waterways this summer?
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I especially love swimming in the River Wharf and there's lots of lovely places to swim there.
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It's a beautiful spot to have on our doorsteps. I think we're really lucky but what a shame that
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it's not a clean place to swim and I started swimming I guess during Covid when it seemed
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less of an issue but now I'm cautious about swimming there because I've got several friends
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who've got sick from swimming there and I really think that it's a hot topic and whoever wins the
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next election should make it a priority to address how polluted our waterways are because there's no
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reason for it really. It's in the hands of the water companies to do a better job and I think
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there needs to be more legislation and also more scrutiny about them improving how they're
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disposing of their waste. I do go to the coast quite a lot, I love Scarborough mainly. A lot of
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my family they live in Bridlington, my uncle lives on the coast of Scarborough so I can understand if
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the coast is being polluted that's really going to affect my family. There needs to be more tighter
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legislation, a watchdog with teeth you know that sort of thing.
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